Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-30
SOUTHERN GLEANINCS.

Mrs. Catharine M. King, widow Of tho
late Burlington King, died recently at
Roswell Ga, aged eighty-lh hree. She was
| highly esteemed.
A student at Vanderbilt University, in
Tennessee, has Just beat the worlds rec
ord in high kicking having succeeded in
hitting mark at the unprecedented
hei ght OF nine feet three and one-half
| inches.
Miss Lemley, of Montgomery County,
Tenn. committed suicide by hanging a
few DAYS ago. She was religious en-
thusiaSt, and her mind had become un.
balanced
The ex-Unlon negro soldiers at New Or.
leans are clamoring for admission to the
Grand Army of the Republic. Having
been refused by the local department,
! they will appeal to the Grand Encamp-
ment at st. Louis.
! There is at present at Mount Vernon,
Barracks,s Ala, an old army mule that has
a record of service in the army coverin g
period Of sixty years. He has been en-
tered on the Government rolls as pen.
sioner, getting his feed and care during
life and exemption from sale.
! Near Troy, Tenn, few evenings since,
James Kitchel was run over and in.
stantly killed by train on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad. Kitchel was a
! blacksmith, originally from Metropolis,
+ Ill He left wife and several children.
/ A bill recently introduced into the
| Georgia Legislature prohibits the use OF
! the little chromcs that 60 with packages
/ of cigarettes.
! Nine head of thoroughbred Holstein-
Tristan cattle were poisoned few nights
/ ago by some unknown person, who threw
| paris green, mixed with salt, in J. s. Ed
! munds' pasture, near Manchester, La.
Eight of the animals have died.
| The boiler of E. J.. Chamberl lain's new
saw-mill at Natchez, Miss, exploded a
few days sinee, wrecking the mill, kill
ing Dorsey Scott (colored), frem an, and
injuring M. Cham berlain, the engineer
and proprietor, and two or three others.
! The startling discovery was made at
Lexington, KY, few nights ago that
the incendiaries who set on fire the large
coal and feed estab abii, hment of Descognets
Il Co. twice within week are five small
boys ranging in age from seven to nine
! years, some of thcm belonging to good
/ families.
/ Parties digging we'll in Nashville.
Tenn, a few days since, found the tusk of
mastodon twenty eight inches in Cir.
cumference and nearly seven feet long.
Prof Stafford, State Geologist and Pro
fessor of Mineralogy and Geology at Van
{ derbilt University, examined it, and pro
nounced it doubtedly the remains Of a
mastodon.
: Nimrod Burrow, an old and eccentric
farmer of Carlisle County, KY, was shot
and killed by his tenant, Jack Russell, a
few days ago. The weapon used was a
shotgun, the load taking effect in Bur-
rows head, killing him instantly. A feud
had existed between the two men for
some time.
! Fire destroyed the Barnhardt Hotel, a
two-story wooden structure, at Bessemer,
Ala, a few nights ago. together with
twenty-one adjoining houses of the same
\ character. Thirteen persons were hurt
bad enough to need the services of the
physicians, and the injuries Of an en-
graver named Frederick Peterson were
thought to be fatal.
/ United States Marshal Gross and an
armed force left Louisville, XIV, a few
days since for Campbellsburg the county
/ Sc of Taylor County, KY, to make a
! levy in enforcement of ju tQment against
/ the people of the county for a railroad.
! The people are furious and lively times
were ex pected
! For some time past freight cars of the
! Knoxville branch of the Louisville 4
Nashville road have been Systematically
| robbed and large amounts Of goods taken.
| William Pollock, brakeman, for fifteen
| years in the road 8 service, was arres ted at
louisville, a few days since, and confessed
! the robbery. He duplicates jim 5 Fuell,
! colored boarding house keeper Of
| Lebanon, Ky. Most cf the stolen goods
were Cincinnati shipments, some of which
have been recovered.
| Daisy Cherry, an eleven-year- col
| ored girl, Of Barnwell, N. c.. has been
! convicted of the murder Of white in.
! fant. and sentenced to be hanged at Co
| lum bia in Septe ber. The young GRIM
! inal was hired out by her parents to
nurse a white baby. The work was dis
| tasteful to her, and she administered a
! dose of concentrated I've to the child,
which caused its death in few hours.
| T. De Witt Saddler shot and killed J. C..
! Harrison at Pineapple, Ala, few days
/ ago, and the coroner's jury gave verdict
| of accidental homicide. They had been
out hunting and began joking by Saddler
asking for chew Of tobacco. Harrison
refused, and Sadder pointed his gun at
him playfully, when it went oil by acci-
! dent, killing Harrison on the spot Both
were res srectable white citizens.
| At Winchester, Va, recently, the grand
| jury Indicted a prominent Israelite mer
chant, n Kohn, and his niece, Emma
Frankel. The parties were married by
Rabbi Phi lipson, of Har Sinai Taber-
nacle, in Baltimore, January 81, 1887, and
returned to Wi inchester to reside. The
| Virginia law forblds the marriage in the
State of parties thus connected, or, hav-
ing been married, from returning there to
reside as man and wife. The penalty is
heavy fine and Imprisonment Eminent
counsel has been engaged by Kohn.
The Georgia House of Representatives
passed the Pelton Wine-Room bill by q
vote Of 90 to Co. The necessity for the bill
arose from the fact that the law under
which lis of the 1877 counties of Georgia
have become dry, permits the sale OF do
mestic wine Under this law the State
was filed with wine-rooms, which sold
vilest compounds Of wine and whisky.
The bill imposes tax Of $1,000 year
upon each ami every one OF these wine-
rooms
Fran k Allen, residing at Marble Hill.
Franklin County, Tenn, cut his throat
from ear to ear a few days ago while iu
the presence If his wife, and died few
minutes laier. Allen had been actlng g